Since many people around the world now require regularly conducting online meetings, it has become imperative to ensure that people appear presentable during Live video calls. This unfortunately isn’t always easy, as hiding your background might be necessary at times to morph the rather messy background or to give a look and feel to the …
“Surface Hub is not a personal computer; it’s a team computer.” This is how people from Microsoft describe their new digital whiteboard. Actually, it is a unique platform that is the first of its kind, changing the way people work, conduct meetings, train, teach, learn, and collaborate. After refreshing its Surface Pro and rolling out its …
A while back we came across a blog post at Engage Their Minds which provided a brief review of Zoom, a web conferencing app. The post seemed interesting as it presented Zoom as an alternative for Google Hangouts and Skype. We decided to take Zoom for a spin and found it worth a review. In what …
Remember NetMeeting? The video conferencing client by Microsoft that existed back in the day? It was one of the first video conferencing solutions which remained active from Windows 95 to Windows XP before meeting its demise more than a decade back. NetMeeting was replaced by apps like the MSN Messenger, which has also long bitten the …
Online meetings are becoming more of a rule rather than the exception. This is not only because of better remote meeting tools but also because many small and medium size businesses now hire employees remotely from across the globe. When conducting remote meetings you need to have a platform that can allow you to step out …
When it comes to remote meetings, it can always help to have the utility to view conference attendees. This is because viewing an individual on-screen during remote communication allows you to understand not just the voice but also the body language. Many a times what we fail to understand when listening to someone is made …
Today’s technological advancements allow us to not only talk with people from other parts of the globe–it allows us to talk to them as if we are face-to-face. With a click of a button meetings, conferences, seminars, and even parties can be held in what we call as webcasting.
There are a large number of tools that can be used for conducting web conferences and sharing your screen but most of them require the installation of a resource intensive app like TeamViewer. However, you can use free video conferencing services to conduct disposable video conferences. Meetings.io is a web service which can be used …
Microsoft Lync is an enterprise messenger which brings a wide range of connectivity features for corporate users including the option to have conference calls, present PowerPoint presentations, as well as screen sharing, file sharing, video chat and more. In a previous post we explained What is Microsoft Lync and brought you an overview of a …
Conference calling services are a more affordable way to conduct group meetings, training sessions, AGMs and other types of important collaboration events. Such services are not only cheaper to use as compared to conventional telephone services but also provide a wide range of useful features that mobile or landline phone companies do not offer. This …